Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is.

Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it.

He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to destroy the eyes of the world.

I am what survives of me.

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

Man's true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.

Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.

Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and potential judge.

Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.

The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method.

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all.

We are what we love.

We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play.

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Any form of a winning record in the conference is an accomplishment.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.

To be loved is important as is having a sense of accomplishment but to love is equally important in life especially when it is combined with taking action to do something for someone else to make their life better.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

I can now successfully drive a stick. That's a huge accomplishment.

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.

There is a price to pay for accomplishment.

But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough.